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Conflict of the Ages #21 and 22 by Lloyd Anderson Conflict of the Ages #21 and 22 By Lloyd Anderson Lloyd Anderson: We come in our studies today to the subject of Jesus Christ being attacked by the devil in order to keep Christ from fulfilling the purpose for which he came into the world. And that is to go to the cross of Calvary for you and me. And I'm sure as we come to our study today the devil has under attack the Lord Jesus Christ and we want to strive and our study today and next study we have together to point out the fulfillment of biblical prophecy. Genesis 3:15 to show that Christ purpose in life was to do only the will of his own Heavenly Father to show that Christ gave his life voluntarily for you and me. I am sure that we must remember that in this conflict of the ages which began even before the Garden of Eden and has continued righteousness versus unrighteous. Satan as over against God and His purpose all of this has been going on. You remember the devil tried to keep Jesus from being born into the world. We see this throughout the pages of the Old Testament in the family of Adam in the family of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and Joseph. All of these areas the devil attacks and tried to keep Jesus Christ from coming into the world. But my friend God's purposes would not be abrogated and set to one side and Christ did come into the world and he was born of the Virgin Mary. But after he came into the world then the devil shifted his strategy and he tried to keep Jesus from going to the cross. And you remember he tried to bring about the death of all Hebrew male children under the age of two. He tried to put Jesus Christ to death in the waves and the storm of the Sea of Galilee. He tried to get Jesus Christ to be stoned to death by the Jewish people. Anderson: Conflict of the Ages #21 and 22 And you remember when he said I am the Father are one they picked up stones to stone him to death. And Jesus simply faded away and got out of their grasp and he was gone and the devil is busy trying to get rid of the Lord Jesus Christ and to keep him from going to the cross. Now we study together the matter of the garden of Gethsemane and the judgment hall in which Jesus Christ stood before Pontius Pilot in Luke Chapter 22 is our study beginning with verse 39 nine down diverse 36 a tremendous passage and we're going to be reading that in just a moment. Luke 22 beginning with verse 39 it is said that at a great European flower show in Germany there were displayed millions of flowers an endless profusion of color and fragrance and beauty and among all of these beautiful flowers the most highly prized were the Alpine flowers that came from the mountains. These were the product of winter and storm which had been perfected in their beauty by the struggle with Stern and savage in nature the last earthly hours of the Lord Jesus Christ were very very bitter and they were cruel and unyielding. But by his submission to the good and acceptable and perfect will of God he received such enduring strength and matchless beauty that he alone received the praise and the honour and the glory. Now in Luke Chapter 22 we find Jesus Christ is under attack and we come out to the garden of Gethsemane. You remember the garden was on the way to Bethany where Jesus was often a guest in the home of Lazarus and Mary and Martha and such a quiet shaded place provided rest for Christ and His disciples in route the gnarled olive tree is where conducive to peace and solitude. And it was a place adaptable for private and undisturbed prayer. Just off the beaten path of traffic and in Luke 22 beginning with verse 39 the scripture says as his want Jesus came to the garden of Gethsemane with all of these advantages beckoning. It is little wonder that it was the Page 2 of 14 Anderson: Conflict of the Ages #21 and 22 custom of Jesus to enter linger meditate and pray in that beautiful garden. He needed a place where he could commune and converse with his heavenly father. A place for retirement and refreshment. And he told his disciples pray that ye enter not into temptation. You have that here in Luke 22 beginning with verse 39. The disciples were soon to be in the presence of the devil and therefore Jesus cautions them to pray that the trials and afflictions that they are about to see and experience will not tempt or influence them to deny Christ Matthew account adds, sit You here he said. Now this suggests that before he would go on to pray they were to wait for him and sit there. They were to stay close together perhaps even forming a circle in a united common bond of prayer. Now Matthew speaking about this same episode that you have here in Luke 22 of the garden of Gethsemane beginning with verse 39 Matthew also records that Peter James and John went a little farther with Jesus before they were asked to remain behind and pray perhaps Jesus wanted them to be near enough to behold his agony and thus be able to compare it with his glory as they had seen it on the mount of transfiguration and thus be kept in a special way from the temptation to deny Christ and then the scripture says in Luke 22 39 on the verse 46 that he was withdrawn from them. Now Jesus was fully aware that the time had come for the devil to return to tempt him as he had threatened to do in the wilderness. He knew that the devil would make again that combined attack on the three levels of body soul and spirit and as a man he needed the prayers of his disciples in order to withstand the adversary's attack. And so the scripture says that he kneeled down and he prayed. The other gospels report that Jesus fell on his face an interesting way of putting it. There is no contradiction. For he probably did both in the fervently of his prayer and in the depths of his sorrow kneeling he would fall forward on his face and act which denoted the Page 3 of 14 Anderson: Conflict of the Ages #21 and 22 deepest anguish and grief a posture of designated the most earnest entreaty before the father. And then he cries out Father if they'll be willing remove this cup from me. This is the garden of Gethsemane experience oh the filial affection and the tenderness in that word father. And Mark in this particular episode links it with the word Abba which was the hallowed endeared form used by the Jewish people for the word father. And it shows that Jesus was expressing a great love and a great trust that existed between him and his heavenly father. Now in this prayer is seen at once the humanity of the Lord Jesus Christ. He offers a cry such it was never before uttered no one of the Evangelist. Matthew Mark Luke and John seem so definitely referred to by the tears that accompanied this cry that seems so definitely referred to by the apostle Paul. You remember he filled the silent night with his crying and he watered the cold earth with his tears more precious than the dew of Mount Hermon or any moisture next to his own blood that ever fell on God's Earth since the creation of the world. His tears in the garden of Gethsemane now as a man. We must remember that Jesus naturally shrank from human suffering as a son. His one deep desire was to do the will of his heavenly father. Now there are several interpretations for the Word Cup. Some believe that when he spoke of the cup being passed from him. Some think it was the pain of his body beneath which he feared he would succumb. Others believe that it was his dread of being made the bearer of all human sin. Others feel that it came to mean his dread of being separated from God for even a very short time. And this probably seems to be the most plausible and acceptable interpretation of the three. Now the cup was a word that denoted suffering its dregs consisted of God's judgment upon man for sin and to make full atonement for sin. There had to be suffering and there had to be pain and there had to be death. This Jesus knew full well having planned that thus Page 4 of 14 Anderson: Conflict of the Ages #21 and 22 with the father and while Jesus cried back his divine nature earnestly cried on for he desired from the depths of his heart to do only the will of God who had sent him into the world. And so we read that there appeared an angel after he had prayed strengthening him. It would seem that Jesus was about to be overwhelmed mark in his record of the same episode and Gethsemane speaks of Jesus being saw amazed or stunned sorrowful unto death.
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